| Question |
Answer |
| Arbitrate |
To judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
| Archaic |
Ancient, old-fashioned |
| Ardor |
Intense and passionate feeling |
| Articulate |
Able to speak clearly and expressively |
| Assuage |
To make something unpleasant less severe |
| Attenuate |
Reduce in force or degree; weaken |
| Audacious |
Fearless and daring |
| Austere |
Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated |
| Banal |
Predictable, cliched, boring |
| Bolster |
Support, prop up |
| Bombastic |
Pompous in speech and manner |
| Burgeon |
To grow and flourish |
| Burnish |
To polish |
| Cacophony |
Harsh, jarring noise |
| Candid |
Impartial and honest in speech |
| Capricious |
Changing one's mind quickly and often |
| Castigate |
To punish or criticize harshly |
| Catalyst |
Something that brings about a change in something else |
| Caustic |
Biting in wit |
| Chaos |
Great disorder or confused situation |
| Chauvinist |
Someone prejudiced in favor |
| Chicanery |
Deception by means of craft or guile |
| Circumspect |
Cautious, aware of potential consequences |
| Coalesce |
To grow together to form a single whole |
| Cogent |
Convincing and well-reasoned |
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